Sofia Forss

746 total citations
20 papers, 497 citations indexed

About

Sofia Forss is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofia Forss has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 497 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Social Psychology, 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sofia Forss's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (18 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers). Sofia Forss is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (18 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers). Sofia Forss collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Sofia Forss's co-authors include Carel P. van Schaik, Caroline Schuppli, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Ellen Meulman, Erik P. Willems, Nicole Zweifel, Sonja E. Koski, Josep Call, Judith M. Burkart and Alba Motes‐Rodrigo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sofia Forss

19 papers receiving 493 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sofia Forss Switzerland 12 406 192 161 135 81 20 497
Ellen Meulman United States 8 450 1.1× 160 0.8× 141 0.9× 189 1.4× 121 1.5× 11 570
Sarah A. Jelbert United Kingdom 14 365 0.9× 216 1.1× 135 0.8× 103 0.8× 64 0.8× 30 555
Noëlle Gunst Canada 14 455 1.1× 251 1.3× 106 0.7× 215 1.6× 78 1.0× 34 548
Jennifer C. Holzhaider New Zealand 11 351 0.9× 255 1.3× 119 0.7× 200 1.5× 32 0.4× 11 543
Arianna De Marco Italy 15 480 1.2× 335 1.7× 89 0.6× 237 1.8× 84 1.0× 29 631
Claudia Wilke United Kingdom 10 265 0.7× 123 0.6× 109 0.7× 266 2.0× 56 0.7× 18 425
Aaron A. Sandel United States 13 352 0.9× 188 1.0× 77 0.5× 103 0.8× 94 1.2× 31 449
Christopher D. Bird United Kingdom 6 342 0.8× 201 1.0× 164 1.0× 133 1.0× 42 0.5× 7 540
Marie Bourjade France 16 237 0.6× 149 0.8× 173 1.1× 121 0.9× 33 0.4× 31 569
Christèle Borgeaud Switzerland 9 374 0.9× 303 1.6× 48 0.3× 195 1.4× 59 0.7× 12 554

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sofia Forss

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofia Forss

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sofia Forss. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sofia Forss based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sofia Forss. Sofia Forss is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burkart, Judith M., et al.. (2025). Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration. Animal Behaviour. 223. 123183–123183.
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2025). How cognitively demanding is the urban niche? Reconsidering exaptation and habituation. Animal Cognition. 28(1). 48–48. 1 indexed citations
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Bandini, Elisa, et al.. (2025). The Biases in Captive Chimpanzee Cognitive Research: First Insights From the Ape Research Index (ARI) Database. Ethology. 131(10). 133–141. 1 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2024). A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(3). 979–998. 10 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2023). The Role of Umwelt in Animal Curiosity: A Within and Between Species Comparison of Novelty Exploration in Mongooses. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(4). 329–354. 4 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia & Erik P. Willems. (2022). The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality. Ethology. 128(8). 552–563. 15 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2021). Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys. Animal Cognition. 25(3). 671–682. 21 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2020). Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration. PeerJ. 8. e10263–e10263. 9 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2019). Differences in novel food response betweenPongoandPan. American Journal of Primatology. 81(1). e22945–e22945. 13 indexed citations
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Carter, Gerald G., Sofia Forss, Rachel A. Page, & John M. Ratcliffe. (2018). Younger vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are more likely than adults to explore novel objects. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0196889–e0196889. 16 indexed citations
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Schaik, Carel P. van, et al.. (2017). How the origin of curiosity may have boosted hominin cultural evolution. 1 indexed citations
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Schuppli, Caroline, et al.. (2017). The effects of sociability on exploratory tendency and innovation repertoires in wild Sumatran and Bornean orangutans. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15464–15464. 30 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, Erik P. Willems, Judith M. Burkart, et al.. (2017). Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orang-utans. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40052–40052. 40 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, Sonja E. Koski, & Carel P. van Schaik. (2017). Explaining the Paradox of Neophobic Explorers: The Social Information Hypothesis. International Journal of Primatology. 38(5). 799–822. 44 indexed citations
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Schaik, Carel P. van, Judith M. Burkart, Sofia Forss, et al.. (2016). The reluctant innovator: orangutans and the phylogeny of creativity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1690). 20150183–20150183. 55 indexed citations
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Schuppli, Caroline, Sofia Forss, Ellen Meulman, et al.. (2016). Development of foraging skills in two orangutan populations: needing to learn or needing to grow?. Frontiers in Zoology. 13(1). 43–43. 49 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, Erik P. Willems, Josep Call, & Carel P. van Schaik. (2016). Cognitive differences between orang-utan species: a test of the cultural intelligence hypothesis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30516–30516. 33 indexed citations
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Schuppli, Caroline, et al.. (2016). Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans. Animal Behaviour. 119. 87–98. 85 indexed citations
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Forss, Sofia, et al.. (2015). Contrasting responses to novelty by wild and captive orangutans. American Journal of Primatology. 77(10). 1109–1121. 66 indexed citations

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